Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives could form a three-way coalition with the liberal Free Democrats (FDP) and the pro-environment Greens after a September parliamentary election, a poll released by the Forsa Institute on Wednesday showed.
Such a "Jamaica coalition" - a reference to the black, yellow and green colors of the Jamaican national flag - is already under discussion in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein after Merkel's Christian Democrats (CDU) scored a decisive victory there on Sunday.
Some CDU lawmakers, including Deputy Finance Minister Jens Spahn, said this week such a coalition could also be an option on the national level after the September election.
The Forsa poll, conducted for Stern magazine and broadcaster RTL before Sunday's regional election, showed support for the CDU unchanged at 36 percent, while the Social Democrats (SPD), currently the junior partner in Merkel's "grand coalition", gained one percentage point to 29 percent.
Both the conservatives and Social Democrats have said they hope to end the current two-way coalition and lead the government with smaller partners after September.
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